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I am pleased to announce the release of my new book, The Self-Publishing Manual: Create and Publish Your Own Print and e-Book, by J. Bruce Jones

The Self-Publishing Manual takes you through the book publishing process from beginning to end. It answers your questions and shows you how to publish your book. The book is organized into three parts.

Part 1 covers key publishing questions such as where do I publish? How do royalties work? What is an ISBN number? How to create a KDP/Kindle Print Book or a Kindle E-Book and how does copyright work?

Part 2 is an overview of the creating and publishing process. The Self-Publishing Manual breaks it down into 12 clear and easy to understand steps. We start by creating the content, then design and layout, and finally publishing and marketing.

The Self-Publishing Manual includes three checklists, the Self-Publishing Checklist, the Launch and Marketing Checklist, and the Best-seller Checklist.

Part 3 is the bonus section, we learn how to launch our book as an Amazon best-seller. How to create a book using my Top Ten Technique and we wrap up with a publishing resource list. The Self-Publishing Manual contains the latest information on KDP/Kindle publishing.

Part 1. Key Question to Ask Before You Begin

Part 2. Writing, Creating and Publishing Your Book

Writing Your Book

Collect Your Graphics Assets, Images, Pictures, and Charts

Key Elements that Your Book Should Have

Editing Your Book

Pre-Edit Printed Proof

Six Different Options for Publishing Your Book.

Creating a Kindle e-book, Including a Kindle Formatting Guide

Creating a KDP.Amazon/Amazon Print Book

Creating a Quick Print Book

Uploading and Publishing Your Book

Launching and Marketing Your Book

Re-purposing Your Book Content for Additional Products

Part 3. Bonus Content

Making an Amazon Best-Seller • Best-Seller Checklist • Top Ten Technique for Creating a Book • Publishing Resources

Bruce Jones is an international best-selling author. He has created or authored over 40 published books. The Self-Publishing Manual shares Bruce’s secrets from over 30 years of graphic design and book publishing.

The Self-Publishing Manual is available at Amazon in both paperback and Kindle e-book.

“I want to publish my book but I don’t know how to do it, please help me.” In my How to Publish Your Book Facebook Group I get some version of this question more than any other. Usually the book is written and that is as far as the author has gotten. Where do I start? What do I do? How do I publish my book? I have just published, now what do I do? These are really big and often confusing questions. So, let’s dive in and see if I can give you some direction and the basic overview of how you can publish your book.

I Want to Publish My Book But I Don’t Know How is set up in three parts depending on what your questions or needs are.

Part 1. Key Publishing Questions. Part 1 takes you through many of the basic questions that people ask about publishing their book. I talk about where to publish, what is print-on-demand, what is an ISBN number, CreateSpace, Kindle and how does copyright work.

Part 2. Writing, Creating and Publishing Your Book. Part 2 is an overview of the creating and publishing process. I have broken it down into 12 steps. We start with creating the content. Then print or e-book, what is involved and how do you do it, interior and cover. We move to publishing your book, how and where it is done and then one of my favorite topics, re-purposing your content for additional revenue. Includes the Self-Publishing Checklist.

Part 3. The Bonus Section. In the bonus section I cover four topics; how to launch your book as an Amazon best seller with a Best Seller Check List. How to create a book quickly using my Top Ten Technique and we wrap up with a resource list.

Part 1. Key Questions to Ask Before You Begin

My Story, Learning to Write at 53

Part 2. How to Write and Publish Your BookWriting the Book 1. Writing Your Book 2. Collect Your Graphic Assets, Images, Pictures, and Charts 3. Key Elements that Every Book Should Have 4. Editing Your Book 5. Pre-Edit Printed Proof 6. Six Different Options for Publishing Your Book.

Creating the Book 7. Creating a Kindle e-book, Including a Kindle Formatting Guide 8. Creating a CreateSpace/Amazon Print Book, Inside and Cover 9. Creating a Quick Print Book

Publishing Your Book 10. Uploading and Publishing Your Book 11. Launching and Marketing Your Book

Part 3. Bonus Content • Making an Amazon Best Seller • Best Seller Checklist • Top Ten Technique for Creating a Book • Publishing ResourcesI am pleased to announce the release of my new book I Want to Publish My Book But I Don’t Know How: Everything You Need to Know to Create an e-book or Print Book, Available in Print and Kindle

I am is please to announce the release of the 5 Day Book Marketing Challenge for anyone who is trying to market their book. This Challenge is free to all participants and is being held in the How to Publish Your Book Facebook Group.

This challenge is designed for authors who currently have a book on Amazon and need to tune up their marketing and give it more life. But also new authors who will find it valuable as they begin to launch their books will find it valuable. Marketing your book is essential for publishing success. The Challenge is being released in Facebook over 5 days plus a Prep Day to a get ready and a Success Day at the end. Starting this weekend, July 29, 2017.

5 Things to Do to Market Your Book

We will start with Day 1, July 31, on Monday July 31 and building a Media Kit, Day 2 we dive into your Amazon sales page, Day 3 is Social Media Day, on Day 4 we are going to make a simple Book Trailer Video and Day 5 we learn about Author Websites and Blogs. There is a companion book, 5 Things to Do to Market Your Book and a Workbook to record your success. Both books are available in the Facebook Group. Hope to see you and much success to marketing your book.​

The How to Publish Your Group on Facebook now has over 2,000 members and is a great place to meet authors, as questions about self-publishing and launch your books.

Thank you again for being part of this publishing community and much success with your books

J. Bruce Jones Is the author and publisher of over 40 books, including the Book Marketing Checklist for Self-Publishing, Available on Amazon. I love teaching other people how to make and publish their own books. There is nothing like seeing an author hold their own new book in their hands.

Bruce is the creator of the 5 Day Book Marketing Challenge, to learn more or to purchase the full Challenge course with Bonuses please click here, 5DayBookChallenge.com

Book Marketing Checklist for Self-Publishing Media Book Package with Video, Audio & PDF versions of the book In Book Marketing Checklist for Self-Publishing I take you through the steps that you will need to successfully launch and sell your book. One of the most common questions I get asked by new authors is “What’s Next?” They have pushed the published button and launched their book on Amazon.com and then go, what do I do now? Books don’t market themselves just because you are on Amazon. You need to be involved on a regular basis with getting your book out to the world and getting people to buy it. This is true wither you are an indie author or you have a publishing company behind you. Books need to be marketed in order to find customers. This Media Package, which includes the lessons I have learned from creating and marketing over 40 of my own books, includes each chapter in Video, Audio and the entire book in PDF.

The Videos-mp4, Audios-mp3 and PDF book includes: Chapter 1: 3 Simple Things I Would Do to Market My Book

Part 2, Book Launch Action Plan Chapter 11: Level 1, Marketing My Book with Little Effort and $0 Dollars Chapter 12: Level 2, I Can Go a Little Bigger and Make a Little More Effort Chapter 13: Level 3, I Want to Kick It Into Higher Gear, Try to Really Push It

Part 3, Book Marketing Resources Buy and Download a Media Version of the Book Marketing Checklist for Self-Publishers, Including Video, Audio and PDF versions of the book.

I am please to announce the release of my newest How to Publish Your Book course, How to Market Your Book

How to Market Your Book Online Course

You have just published your first book? Are you asking “now what?” How do I market it? How do I get people to find it? Is this you? I am here to help. In this course I teach you everything I have learned about marketing and promoting my own books. I will teach you the concepts and tools to successfully market and sell your book. I am J. Bruce Jones and I am the author of over 35 books, selling over 3,600 books a year on Amazon.com in 5 of different categories.

In this online course covers:

General book marketing concepts, my main lessons

Ideally book marketing begins the day we start writing our books. This video covers stuff to do before you release your book

Amazon marketing, learn to use the most powerful store in the world to promote your book

Preparing for your book launch, getting your fans, platform and the market ready.

Everyone is trying to get an Amazon category best seller, Video 5 covers how.

When you get right into marketing having a media kit becomes very useful. This video walks you through what you need.

Your book is launched and on its way but the marketing doesn’t really ever stop. In Video 7 I talk about what you can do on an ongoing basis.

And finally we cover off line marketing. Not everything is the web, this video covers things you can outside of the web.

Bonus Videos A big part of my book marketing is building a home on the web where everything can be directed. A place where your fans can learn more about you, Google can find you, your connections to Amazon and your social media. A great way to do this is build an author/book blog or website. In these two bonus video I show you how to build a book blog of your own

Bonuses • Book Marketing Checklist. I break it down to steps for each of the different tasks in this pdf booklet. • Book Marketing Action Plan, this pdf document gives you an outline for 3 different levels that you can work at for marketing your book. They go from simple and free to a full on book launch.

Ok I am trying again. I recently participated in the first Small Product Lab 10 day product development project from Gumroad.com. That product was the How to Build a Facebook Group and it is almost done. I will finish it, life got in the way. I have been working on my big 7 Steps to Publishing Your Book Course which is just about finished up, editing the final videos. But it is huge course with around 60 videos. Tons of content, everything I know about publishing.

What I thought to do is to pull out some sections of that course and release some more focused, smaller learning. I put together a great module on book marketing called, How to Market Your Book with a book marketing check list, How to Create a Best Seller, and about 7 videos. With some re-branding and changing the video intros I could create a smaller, more focused course. Gumroad.com, which is this fantastic site that I use it all the time for hosting small products of mine is running their third Small Product Lab. This would be a good motivator for releasing the product. Gumroad has a lot of training and information on how to make and sell products. Gumroad is an amazing site, what they do is host, deliver and handle all the back office ecommerce stuff for anything that you want to upload and sell.

The project lays out like this. Ten days, ten actionable lessons. Here’s the Gumroad game plan

Course Outline

Sept 28, What’s your product? how to market

My product is called How to Market Your Book. is has 7 videos plus 2 bonus videos on how to make a book blog. The videos are based on my years of experience and what I have learned about marketing books. There are a million ways to go and it is one of the things that makes the process so confusing. I will also include a couple of handouts.

my quick course description Learn the steps to marketing your new book. This course covers pre-book release marketing, book launching, how to get an Amazon bestseller and building your platform and media kit.

In this weeks How to Publish Your Book Show I will show how to layout a book cover for the print-on-demand site CreateSpace/Amazon. I will build the front, spine and back cover for the Amazon best selling book the Goddess Guide. Learn my layout tips and techniques in this hands on episode, Friday, August 14th at 2:00pm EST, 11:00 Pacific

I am working on a quick little course as part of the Gumroad.com Small Product Lab 10 challenge. WEEEEEE. I am getting there and trying to keep up. One of the points they talk about is getting exposure and pushing your content out to the world. So ok, below is the outline for my course which I should be makeing into videos shortly. #SmallProductLab #SPLDay5

How To Build Your Author Platform Using a Facebook Group, On-Line Course

What is an Author Platform? • Intro • All the points of connection that you have with the world • All your followers, social media, Factbook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube • Customers, people who gave you money, bought your products • Email list • Event attendees, co-workers and family • Members of associations or organizations that you belong to

Why is an Author Platform Important? • These are the people that buy your books and products • They hire you to speak at their events • They give you reviews on Amazon • They will spread your story and become your champions

Why Use a Facebook Public Group? • Easy to set up • Huge global audience • Widely accepted • People can discover and get to know you without to much engagement • Easy to connect, speed to connecion, different levels of connection • Easy for your fans to post and participate in your group and community • Easy to share content, images, videos and files • Easy to build your community

How to Make a Facebook Public Group • Select a good name, search on group names, keywords, rolls off the tongue • Go for the topic instead of your name, be the expert in your topic

How to Manage Your Facebook Group • Thank all new members for joining • Engagement and building your community • Strategies for dealing with fans • Setting rules and guidelines • Enforcing your rules, kicking people out of your group • Asking and answering questions, polls • Introducing your projects and services, consulting • Selling without selling

How to Create Content Quickly • Write posts, create videos • Answer questions • Let the content come to you, notice what is going by in the stream of life • Set up Google Alerts, review results, select and repost • Subscribe to subject matter blogs and websites with newsletters and emails • Subject matter forums • Search and repost videos • Encourage members to post, respond and contribute to each post

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